From The Great Train Robbery (1903)) to Casablanca (1942) , Hollywood film studios made major scientific advancements in film production. In the next thirty-nine years they move from the first silent narrative film to the classical Hollywood style. Nevertheless one aspect of film making still remains the same; all films are based around a plot or narrative idea. Classical Hollywood style shows us how these major movie studios can now bring their films to life with sound, camera angle and what was called “point of view shots”. New forms of lighting (three-point lighting, high-key/low-key lighting and star lighting) and editing made it possible for filmmakers to make feature-length films.
In fact, Hollywood survives today because of its television markets. PANAVISION: Replaced Cinemascope in the 60’s. The process allows 35mm negatives to be blown up to 70mm release prints. The PANAVISION CAMERA is a widely used camera based on the Mitchell design. DOLBY SOUND: Invented by Ray Dolby, a recording system and reproduction system that revolutionized sound; Dolby’s most recent innovation is surround sound.
Analysis of Film Aaron Penton Eng 225 Hannah Judson September 21, 2009 Introduction William Lincoln produced the first motion picture in 1867. From then until now, Hollywood has produced thousands of motion pictures for the world to enjoy and appreciate. But have we really appreciated the film in its entirety? Have individuals fully engaged the art of filmmaking. Most films have an underlying purpose and unified around a central theme.
Mise en scene is what the audience sees on the screen, “the most visable part of the film, especially the actors, so much so that for over a century the inclusion of a certain actor has often alone been enough to bring an audience to the theater (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2011). “ More goes into the production of a film than the end product that the audience views. There is an abundant amount of behind-the-scenes staff that makes all of the “magic” that makes today’s films so special. The creation of a film is so much more than actors memorizing lines for the camera, it is a rich process with multiple rolls with actors and directors that requires many nights of long hours and a tremendous amount of preparation. This paper is intended to describe the elements of film design, from envisioning the story to designing, creating the film and the edited and revised end product that the audience views on the big screen.
Lucy the Beginnings of Humankind is a novel about the impressive discovery of our ancestors by Donald Johanson and Maitland Edey. This discovery changed the way scientists thought about the origins of humankind. The discovery of Lucy proves that humans evolved from apes millions of years ago. It also provides further evidence that supports the fact that bipedalism preceded increase in brain size in human evolution. Finding 40% of the bones from Lucy was extremely impressive to scientists and especially to a paleoanthropologist because of the simple fact that these bones are over 3 million years old.
"The Wizard of Oz" was a major achievement when you consider that it was filmed nearly three-quarters of a century ago. If the film was made today, there would be extensive use of Computer Generated Imagery (CGI). As eye-popping and jaw-dropping as CGI and how it would have made the film look, it might just take away the charm of the story and its characters. Without computers, the makers used the tools of their trade and of their day. Like the Emerald City, which is a great visual, was created by using sets and paintings.
Tribal villagers used the shelter long before white settlers and gold miners settled in the Sierra foothills. The pictographs were centuries old. The pictographs depected animals, reptiles and man. All of the paintings were recognizable as creatures that would have inhabited the Sierras 500 to 1,000 years ago, when the pictographs are believed to have been created. Three of the animals, though, can only be described in today’s dictionary as an adult male, female and child Bigfoot.
Introduction Have you ever wondered where we come from? Anthropologists have made many discoveries in the past few decades that have increased our knowledge as to who our ancestors are and how humans evolved. “Lucy” who was discovered in 1974. Anthropologists have discovered fossil remains of an ancestor older than Lucy; a female named Ardipithecus, or Ardi for short, who possesses human and ape-like qualities. Ardi proved that bipedalism, or walking upright on two feet, existed half a million years before previously thought * Thesis: The main features of Ardi that helped shed light on these discoveries were from close examinations of Ardi’s skull, pelvis and limbs, and her teeth.
Serena Kuhns Mr. Berry 071712 Photography For centuries, photography has become one of the most popular forms of art. Photography has improved drastically; such as the way pictures are developed, type and size of the camera, and the quality of pictures. Many people aren’t aware that photography has been around for centuries and was first thought of by ancient Greeks. The Greeks discovered that pictures can be formed by a small hole in the wall of a dark room. The decade of 1830–1840 is most often believed to be the birth period of photography which was the period when photography became public.
Scientists say this is the first time that body adornment has been conclusively seen in Neanderthals. Body ornamentation is a medium or technology for communication, particularly of socially relevant information. Archaeologists consider jewelry to be evidence of symbolic thinking and modern behavior, usually found in Homo sapiens’ sites. It can also represent individuality or status in groups. This is the first evidence that around 50,000 years ago, 10,000 years before humans came on the scene, “the behavior of Neanderthals was symbolically organized,” (Zilhao).